The team is together again

Today is the first formal day of the team trip. We started a bit later than usual, at 8am with a 45 minute tuc-tuc drive to the Light for Living church which was at the opposite side of the city. Markus and Åshild (below) like the rest of us, are enjoying the ride.

Because there were at that point six of us plus baggage we needed to tuc-tucs and so we drove in convoy!

It is fantastic to be part of the worship here even though we don't understand what they are singing about I always find that God speaks to me in other ways. One of the things he showed me is the way the whole-hearted worship of the church attracts children from the neighbourhood to come and see. I pray that this witness and the children's curiosity will be a witness which leads to faith in the area.

Below are pictures of a couple of the local children.

The service lasted about two hours and was completely led by the students from the two Normisjon dormitories except for the sermon. The older man in the picture below preached the sermon. He spoke on the power of the Holy Spirit and opened what he shared with some of his personal experiences under the Pol Pot regieme in the late 1970's.

We were invited to share in the fellowship meal after the service, the food and the fellowship was inspirational.

Then we had a long drive which in the past has taken up to six hours. Thankfully today we had very few hold-ups and we got here in less than 4 hours. Thank you to all of you who have been praying about that. To give a flavour of the ride here is a picture of a row of the Ravnås family catching some ZZZZZ on the drive.

Here is a moped or motorbike with a whole shop balanced on it! A flavour of a drive in this country. Sorry about the quality of the pictures, were taken in a bouncing mini-bus!

No car trip is complete without a snack on the way. We bought corn on the cob and ate it straight away. It tasted sweeter than the corn at home as well as it being fun to eat!